Havoc on the highway.

This has been one of those days. A bus crashed on the motorway, heading south,  not far from Beenleigh.

Today started off badly, with me having bad nights sleep, supposedly leaving home by 9am and my being woken up at 9am. Whoops...a bit late already.

Our current house sit is close to our youngest son. He and his partner bought some new furniture, but didn't realise it was all in flat packs. They spent hours putting it together, but ended up with piles of cardboard boxes, big ones, and lots of left over packing. So in his kindness, Peter offered to take our trailer up and take it all to the dump, hence the 9am departure time. We got on the road about 9.45am. He lives not far away so in 20 minutes or so we were there.

I looked a bit of a mess, not having time for a shower or anything, basically throwing on some clothes and having a couple of bits of toast. My hair needed some quality time spent on it, but didn't get it...lol.

It took two trips to take all to the dump, but it was all done in an hour or so. While the boys were doing the heavy work, my sons partner took me to the Hyperdome for a foot massage and pedicure. I just love a good foot massage, having been used to the real deal in China, and we felt really relaxed once they had finished with us. Then we all met up for lunch at Sizzlers. From there we could see the motorway and knew it was going really slowly. About an hour later we  headed for home. Bad move.

We got into the traffic, heading for the motorway. But there was no action. The lights went red, yellow, green, red, yellow, green and we just sat still. It was the traffic jam from hell....We turned the motor off for a while, then decided to get into the left lane and try for the service road that runs alongside the motorway. Unfortunately they were diverting all south bound traffic from the motorway onto the roundabout we were heading for, so the whole place was almost at a standstill.

This traffic was moving, but at a snails pace, and we were a bit low on gas. After spending about 30 minutes going half a kilometer, we turned off to get petrol, and headed for a Macca's for a coffee. At the same time we phoned the info line 131940 and were told there would be further delays.

A bus had rolled, and blocked all lanes going south. It was a busload of Indonesians heading off to Dreamworld for the day, and changing lanes had contacted another vehicle and rolled over. From the website information possibly the bus driver was not to blame for this. I gather there were no seious injuries, so that was amazing really, the speed limit there is 100 or 110km per hour.  But it sure did some damage to the traffic flows.

After our coffee, and with more petrol we aimed for the motorway again. This time they were allowing traffic onto the motorway, they had cleared away all the wreckage, but everything was very slow and stop/start. A trip that normally takes us about 20 minutes took just under 3 hours.

If you want more info check this link.
http://www.news.com.au/travel/news/pacific-highway-reopens-after-tourist-bus-rolls-en-route-to-dreamworld/story-e6frfq80-1226453113271

I'm very pleased the olympics have finished, I've got my nights back. But the Bledisloe cup is on now, there's always something. Go the All blacks....